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ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE ADDRESS Indian Academy of Sciences C.V. Raman Avenue Post Box No. 8005 Sadashivanagar P.O. Bangalore 560 080 Telephone 80-2361 2546, 80-2361 1034 (EPABX) Fax 91-80-2361 6094 Email [email protected] Website www.ias.ac.in CONTENTS 1. Introduction 4 2. Council 4 3. Fellowship 5 4. Associates 8 5. Publications 8 6. Discussion Meetings 16 7. Raman Professor 18 8. Public Lectures 19 9. Platinum Jubilee Programmes 20 10. Science Education Programmes 33 11. Building – Academy Guest House 48 12. Academy Finances 48 13. Acknowledgements 49 14. Tables 49 15. Annexures 52 16. Statement of Accounts 65 1 INTRODUCTION The Academy was founded in 1934 by Sir C.V. Raman with the main objective of promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science (both pure and applied). It was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act on 24 April 1934. The Academy commenced functioning with 65 Fellows and the formal inauguration took place on 31 July 1934 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. On the afternoon of that day its first general meeting of Fellows was held during which Sir C.V. Raman was elected its President and the draft constitution of the Academy was approved and adopted. The first issue of the Academy Proceedings was published in July 1934. The present report covering the period from April 2009 to March 2010 represents the seventy-sixth year of the Academy. 2 COUNCIL There were two statutory meetings of the Council on 4 July and 11–12 December 2009. ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 4 3 FELLOWSHIP 3.1 2010 Elections 25. Kohli, Ravinder Kumar A total of 573 nominations received for 26. Kotha, Sambasivarao fellowship in different disciplines were 27. Kumar, Anurag considered by the eight Sectional Committees 28. Kumar, Lalit and subsequently by the Council. Following 29. Lele, Ashish K postal balloting, 59 new Fellows were elected, 30. Maiti, Kalobaran the fellowship being effective from 1 January 31. Mallick, Birendra Nath 2010. A list of their names follows, while 32. Mondal, Naba Kumar Annexure 1 gives their particulars. 33. Moorthy, J N 34. Mukhopadhyay, Amitabha Fellows 35. Nagaraj, D S 1. Arankalle, Vidya A 36. Narayan, K S 2. Awasthi, Shally 37. Navalgund, R R 3. Bag, A K 38. Pal, Amlan Jyoti 5 4. Bhargava, Purnima 39. Pati, S K 5. Bhatt, Subhash J 40. Patra, Amit Kumar 6. Biswas, Gautam 41. Ramaiah, D 7. Chakraborti, Pradip K 42. Ramamritham, Krithi 8. Chattoo, Bharat B 43. Ramamurti, V 9. Chattopadhyay, Nitin 44. Ramamurty, Upadrasta 10. Choudhury, Debajyoti 45. Rangarajan, G 11. Das, Amitava 46. Rao, T S S R K 12. Das, Samar Kumar 47. Ravi, V 13. Dasgupta, Indranil 48. Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri 14. Dighe, Rajan 49. Sami, Mohammad 15. Dutta-Gupta, Aparna 50. Sankaranarayanan, Rajan 16. Galande, Sanjeev 51. Sane, S S 17. Ganguli, Ashok Kumar 52. Sarin, Apurva 18. Ghosh, Balaram 53. Satheesh, S K 19. Ghosh, P K 54. Sharma, S K 20. Govindarajan, Rama 55. Shivashankar, G V 21. Haider, S A 56. Sinha, Sudeshna 22. Indrayan, A 57. Sowdhamini, R 23. Khanduja, S K 58. Subramanian, Kandaswamy 24. Khurana, Paramjit 59. Yadav, J S 3.2 In memoriam The Academy regrets to place on record the death of the following 15 Fellows and 2 Honorary Fellows during the period up to March 2010. Annexure 2 gives additional information about them. Fellows 1. Anand Kumar, T C 11. Nigam, S D 2. Anantharaman, T R 12. Ramachandra Rao, P 3. Bhargava, B N 13. Sriramachari, S S 4. Biswas, S 14. Vaidya, P C 5. Bose, M K 15. Viswanathan, K S 6. Chandrashekaran, M K 7. Grewal, R S Honorary Fellows 8. Kilpady, S 1. Ginzburg, V L 9. Nair, K G 2. Liepmann, H W 10. Nasipuri, D 3.3 Strength of the Fellowship Fellows Honorary Fellows 1 April 2009 927 51 Elected (Dec. 2009) 59 - Deceased (2009 – 2010) 15 2 1 April 2010 971 49 3.4 Fellowship and nomination analysis 58 52 49 50 49 49 48 49 48 47 47 44 MATHEMATICS PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Average age of Fellows at the time of elections during the past 6 years (2005–2010) 6 Fellowship andnominationanalysis(contd.) 57 53 46 Average age of Fellows at the time of elections during the past 6years(2005–2010) ageofFellows atthetimeofelectionsduringpast Average 2005 2005 2005 PLANT SCIENCES 2006 49 2006 55 2006 49 CHEMISTRY MEDICINE 2007 48 2007 50 2007 49 2008 51 2008 49 2008 49 2009 52 2009 51 2009 49 2010 56 2010 57 2010 51 EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES & PLANETARY EARTH 2005 52 2005 50 2005 56 2005 45 GENERAL BIOLOGY ANIMAL SCIENCES 2006 48 2006 52 2006 47 2006 ENGINEERING 45 2007 46 2007 44 2007 51 2007 46 2008 48 2008 54 2008 50 2008 50 2009 48 2009 54 2009 45 2009 46 2010 49 2010 57 2010 50 2010 53 7 4 ASSOCIATES 5 PUBLICATIONS Fifty-six nominations were received and the 5.1 Report on publication arrangement with following 27 were selected as Associates in Springer 2009 (see also Annexure 3). The agreement with Springer for co- 1. Ananth, Sudarshan publication of the 10 journals of the Academy 2. Banerjee, Rahul came to an end in December 2009. A fresh 3. Bhavesh, Neel Sarovar agreement for the 5-year period 2010 – 2014, 4. Biswas, K basically along the same lines as the earlier 5. Chand, Hum one, was signed by the Academy and Springer in July 2009. The new draft agreement 6. Chandran, L. Sunil prepared with legal assistance ensures as 7. Chauhan, Santosh before, the interests of the Academy such as 8. Dabeer, Onkar J ownership, copyright, editorial operations, 9. Dewangan, Pawan acceptance and rejection of papers, printing 10. Ghosh, Suhrit hard copies for domestic circulation, etc. The 11. Gogate, Parag R reach and visibility of each journal and the 12. Krishnapur, Manjunath number of downloads from each journal have 13. Mahapatra, Santanu improved significantly during the period 14. Maji, Pradipta 2007–09. We hope these trends will continue. 15. Malik, Sudip Fellows and other scientists should consider 16. Mandal, Sumantra contributing a significant share of their research papers to the Academy journals since 17. Mukhopadhyay, Samrat their visibility worldwide has much 18. Nagendran, S improved. 19. Patil, Satish Amrutrao 20. Pradeep Singh, N D 21. Roy, Debdas 5.2 Journals 22. Saha, Binoy K The following 11 journals continue to be 23. Saxena, Manoj published by the Academy: 24. Singh, Sanjay 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 25. Thilagar, P 2. Current Science 26. Venugopal, Santhanam 3. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 27. Viswanath, S 4. Journal of Biosciences 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences (formerly Proceedings Chemical Sciences) 6. Journal of Earth System Science ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 (formerly Proceedings Earth and Planetary Sciences) 7. Journal of Genetics 8 8. Pramana – Journal of Physics morbidity and mortality from infectious 9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences causes. While tuberculosis, hepatitis, malaria 10. Resonance – Journal of Science and HIV/AIDS continue to dominate the Education disease incidence rates, we in India in 11. Sadhana – Engineering Sciences addition have to cope with the re-emergence The number of pages published with journal- of influenza, plague, malaria, dengue, wise information on papers submitted for leptospirosis and chikungunya. Also, we are publication and circulation figures of journals confronted by novel viral infections such as for the calendar year 2009 are given in Tables SARS and multi drug-resistant/extensively 1–3 (see pages 49–50) respectively. drug resistant tuberculosis. These diseases adversely impact families, workforce productivity and economic development. 5.3 Special issues of journals They also present a formidable challenge to Many special issues of topical importance the already resource-limited health systems, were published as part of the regular issues and call for an approach based on prevention of some of the journals. A description of these and health promotion. follows: This special issue is an attempt to discuss the Emerging and re-emerging infections in burden of selected communicable diseases in 9 India India and analyse the causes for the changing Guest Editors: pattern of these infections in this country. The C C Kartha and causes include genetic mutations in the U C Chaturvedi infectious agent, ecological factors and factors that promote the transmission of infections. Journal of Other reasons may be poor surveillance, Biosciences, Vol. 33, inadequate understanding of the dynamics of No. 4, November the spread of infections, insufficient use of 2008, pp. 423–628 available tools for infection control and Communicable inappropriate policy response to epidemics. diseases account for The articles in this issue cover a wide nearly 45% of adult spectrum of bacterial, viral and parasitic disease burden and deaths in Southeast Asia infections and delineate the challenges for despite the epidemiological transition to an their prevention and control. The authors are increasing burden of chronic non- experts in their domains and share their communicable diseases and notwithstanding opinions on strategies that might hold the developments in medical science and promise for prediction and control of technology. Thus, they are of great concern. epidemics, and deliberate on measures for What is more disturbing is that in recent times, appropriate health system reforms. the pattern and profile of infectious diseases have undergone a sea change in India and other Southeast Asian countries. Re-emerging infections contribute substantially to Current trends in physics in the normal phase in a variety of correlated Guest Editors: systems.